Minds on the margin are not marginal minds Surpassing expectations Of People by Learning from them
anil k gupta IIMA, NIF, honey bee network, anilg@sristi.org
monitoring context changes the content
Let us recognise potential of knowledge richeconomically poor people
Innovations are easy Method
Old
New
Old Application New
Old Material/instruments
new
A Lesson for learners A change not monitored is a change not desired (g, 1984)
Honey Bee Network founded in 1987-1988
A nameless, faceless innovator comes into contact with the Network and gets an identity.
Building upon four capitals for sustaining innovations Intellectual capital Social capital Trust, reciprocity and third part sanctions External regulation
Intellectual property ( that part of ic from the commercial applications of which, one can exclude others for a given period of time)
Natural capital ( commoditization of resources, stored, sold, exchanged, controlled)
Ethical Capital ( internal regulations) Source: Gupta, 2001
CREATING open source PUBLIC STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE
Patamda, Puruliya –bankura
shodhyatra
Meghalaya
Technology is like words, institutions are like
grammar and culture is like
thesaurus Three pillars of sustainability
A public innovation for public use: Jharkhand
Service at your door step: Sheikh Jahangir, Jalgaon, Maharshtra
Scooter mounted flour mill
Scooterbased washing machine
Fortune at the Top of Ethical and Innovation Pyramid
learning from common people: Saidullah, champaran, Bihar
Blending love, learning and loving
love learning
living
Solutions for the poor and the rich, by the poor: but this is not Jugaad,
Non stick clay pan: Rs 60 /= Mansukh Bhai Prajapati, Surendra Nagar, Gujarat
Mansukhbhai : Mitticool Product Range
Automated Circular Kiln that Mansukhbhai made specially for the baking tawas and diyas
Just 70 Euro
Low Cost Wind mill Stronger, durable version, 900 euro, saves diesel worth 700 Mehtar Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmad, Assam euro in one season of salt making Over 35 units installed in salt farming regions of Gujarat to improve livelihood of poor salt farmers
Innovation by Mehtar Husain and his brother Mushtaq Ahmed from Assam to Gujarat Several African countries have shown interest to get this technology
GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF CREATIVITY Innovations and traditional knowledge
Enterprise
Investment
Mind to market: the case of herbavate
Herbvate: a skin ointment • It is based on the knowledge of seven innovators from six districts Sabarkanth, Panchmahal, Dang, Mahsana, Patan and Bhavnagar of Gujarat. Herbavate exhibits remarkable properties against eczema and variety of inflammatory and infectious skin conditions. Communities: The innovators of Herbavate: 1. Amratbhai Shankarbhai Rawal, Mehsana Gujarat. 2. Kunjubhai Kakadiyabhai Bhoya, Dang Gujarat 3. Pujabhai Dabhi, Sabarkantha, Gujarat 4. Karshanbhai Parmar, Sabarkantha Gujarat 5. Laxmanbhai Pagi, Panchmahal, Gujarat 6. Lilabhai Rawal, Patan Gujarat 7. Lakhabhai Becharbhai Khatana, Bhavnagar Gujarat
g2G grassroots to global Global GIAN – Building Global Value Chain for augmentation of Green Grassroots Innovations
Sales made 1.
Coconut tree climber- USA (Florida, Massachussets, California, Hawaii etc.) Australia, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Mexico, West Indies
2.
Pomegranate deseeder-Turkey, USA
3.
Garlic peeling machine-Pakistan
4.
Arecanut husker- Singapore
5.
Milking machine-Phillipines, Uganda, Ethiopia
6.
Resin grading machine-Peru
7.
Cassava peeling machine-kenya
8.
Herbal growth promoters-Ghana
Product enquiries: Sl no.
Innovation/product
Countires
1
Coconut/palm tree climbing device
USA, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Australia, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Iran, West Indies
2
Entech oil expeller
USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Phillipines, Canada, Kenya, Colombia, S. Africa, Switzerland, Poland, Indonesia, Belgium
3
Garlic peeling machine
Slovenia, USA, Turkey, Peru, Singapore, Iran , Venezuela, Pakistan
4
Pomegranate deseeding machine
USA, Australia, Turkey, Venezuela, Hongkong, Israel, Netherlands, Thailand, UAE, Iran, United Kingdom
5
Cassava peeling machine
Congo, USA, Benin, Nigeria, Kenya, UAE, Uganda
6
Aaruni tilting cart
Uganda
7
Coconut defibring machine
China
8
Coconut dehusker
Mexico, New Zealand, USA, Philippines, Bangladesh
9
Lemon cutting machine
S. Africa
10
Milking machine
Bangladesh, Uganda, Ecuador
11
Palm leaf mat weaving machine
Fiji
12
Rain Gun (Chandraprabha)
Sudan
13
Tea making machine
Bangladesh,
14
Tile making machine
Bangladesh, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia
15
Trench digging machine
Pakistan
16
Zero head water turbine
Egypt
17
Arecanut dehusking machine
Chile
The President of India honours grassroots innovators, launches National Innovation Clubs and hosts an innovation exhibition at the President’s house; NIF becomes an Institute of Department of Science and Technology
Initiative to Institutionalisation
The former President awards children innovators every year at the Award function by NIF at IIMA
IGNITE
Initiative to Institutionalisation
Education
EDUCATION
Why do we not have a database of teachers in government schools who have achieved all the goals of quality education without any extrinsic reward or motivation?
Why have we not included any lesson based on innovations by common people in the textbooks for schools and colleges?
Why is there no social innovation fund to invest in educational innovations by teachers?
Why do we not have an open access multi-media, multi language database of open source content for our children?
Educational Innovation
National Innovation Clubs: • Search: Celebrating the decade of innovation by mapping the creativity and innovations in the hinterland • Spread: Disseminating/Cross-pollinating innovations across spaces, social segments and sectors • Sense or Benchmark: Identifying the roots of persistent problems and the mindsets that trigger their continued tolerance in society and solve problem, add value and develop product/service • Celebrate: Recognising achievers in different social segments
Name of Product
Sristi Rakshak
Innovator
Shri Banidan Mavjibhai Gadhvi
Shri Arkhiben Mithabhai Vanakar Shri Ranabhai Gigabhai Kamaliya Shri Rajanikant Keshabhai Patel Shri Ahemadbhai Daudbhai Kadiwala Shri Gemalsingh Rana Shri Karshanbhai Manajibhai Chaudhary
Name of Product Sristi Krushak Innovator Shri Popatbhai Rupabhai Jambucha Shri Dhirubhai Bhemabhai Nayak Shri Salvi Swetha Reddy Shri Naranbhai Samjibhai Solanki
Name of the Product Sristi Mosq Hit Innovator Community Knowledge Composition Nagod (Vitex negundo ) Camphora (Cinnamomum camphora ) Bavchi (Posrelia Carylifolia ) Cream base
Neutraceutical cookies
Some Lessons • Lesson one: Problem is not innovation, but lack of attention to the emerging ideas. • Lesson two: Scaling up is important but long tail of innovation is even more important • Lesson three: Benchmarking the need and delivery gaps
• Lesson four: Investing in risky ideas when they are still hazy is the key to entrepreneurial future
Learning platforms: from concrete to abstract
• 1. • 2. • 3. • 4. •
Artefactual - as a replication of solution level Analogically - metaphor to inspire Heuristically - as a model or principle gestalt - configurational level
Gupta, 2012, Own complilation
Some leaves from the lives of public adm innovators
Karnataka Sakala Services Act 2011
Sakala means “in time” - Name, Logo, Slogan were proposed by Citizens. SAKALA – No More Delays…We Deliver on Time
Most sought after services Department
SERVICE most sought (cumulative)
TOTAL NO. OF GSC DISPOSALS
Revenue
All types of Caste & Income Certificate
7916942
Transport
Learning Licence
810841
Urban
Issue of Birth, Still Birth and Death Certificates
362141
Food
Modification in Existing Ration Card
751322
Home
Receipt and Disposal of Petitions
229014
Commercial Tax
Issue of form C Declaration
1284627
Call Centre
• A bridge b/w citizens & Government (8 am to 6 pm all working days) • Single no. for the State - 080- 4455 4455.
About 98 per cent request were serviced with in time
• Over 3 CRORES calls received so far.
• So far 865 Sakala & 1750 Non Sakala complaints received .
Polycentric Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:
Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:
Future sources of learning, creativity and innovation would not be restricted to formal boundaries of organisations.
Creating networks:
No one organization is likely to possess sufficient information or knowledge to enable it to achieve its goals
Emerging Models of innovations • New models of innovations: a)Building upon what disadvantaged people are rich in: inability to live with problems unsolved –overcoming inertia b) Empathetic innovations: samvedana se srijansheelta, kho kho model of innovation ( innovation relay ) c) Going beyond long tail, long nose of innovations to turbulent innovations
Models of innovations: d) Inverted model of innovations: children invent, engineers fabricate, and companies commercialize e) Pooling of distributed ideas for innovation and experimentation : uncommon from common f) distributed mind management: www.techpedia.in, transcending the limits of frugality
g) Moving blackboards: learning from unexpected quarters
Curiosity is thy nature, indifference is ours????????? How can we scout innovative ideas from kids , tech students, informal sector and professional individuals?
Nisha Chaube NOIDA Bag with folding seat
Arnab from, West Bengal
Arnab, west bengal
Mohammed Usman Hanif Patel, Jalgaon, Maharashtra, class two
www.techpedia.in • recently a new initiative techpedia.in, (a portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling 104,000 engineering projects by 350k students from over 500 institutions) etc., engaging with youth in the one of the youngest country •
Shanu sharma: vardan, iitk
raghunath p Lohar
Image, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis for deaf and dumb to talk to normal people
Saurabh Saket and Rahul Ranjan , Bhutta College of Engineering & Technology, Ludhiana
Has any big company given you fridge that also gives you hot water, keeps food warm and consumes less electricity
Lpg gas based refrigerator Chintan, mayank, biren Mehsana
Hot water from fridge Dhruv Mehsana
Exhaust pipe cools drivers cabin `
GOLDEN TRIANGLE OF CREATIVITY Innovations and traditional knowledge
Enterprise
Investment
Take away Finally, innovations are imperative, inclusion is inevitable and inertia is intolerable Seeds of impatience will thrive in the soil of sustainable experimentation we need Circular economy, social and ethical capital and entrepreneurial mindset Begin with past perfect to build credibility rather than future indefinite Grassroots innovation can transform, policy transformation can energize and open innovation models can connect
Agenda for action: • Educational innovation: recognizing innovative teachers, open source content for children, linking students with msme and informal sector • Social innovation fund, culture of and in creativity, redesigning District Innovation Fund, • Spending an hour a week with achievers of your department, learning and sharing
• Inclusive Innovation Fund needs to be set up for investing in young start ups • Every organization can harness creativity and innovation from with-in, but more importantly from outside—crowd sourcing
• Each person can be an innovator, unlock the locks we have put in place ourselves • Distributed knowledge is a reality: why not reciprocate idea givers better
Creativity counts Knowledge matters Innovations transform
Incentives inspire ( not just individual, but also collective, not just material, but also non-material) the Honey Bee Network is yours ! For rewarding indigenous creativity and innovation www.techpedia.in, www.sristi.org, www.nif.org.in anilgb@gmail.com